Guidelines to measurements of reproducible contact angles using a sessile-drop technique

Surface Innovations

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 248-254

  Drelich, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact angle; Surface characterization; Wetting

Indexed keywords

DROP FORMATION; WETTING;

ADVANCING AND RECEDING CONTACT ANGLES; MEASUREMENTS OF; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SESSILE DROP TECHNIQUES; STATIC CONTACT ANGLE; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION;

CONTACT ANGLE;

EID: 85029814001     PISSN: 20506252     EISSN: 20506260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/si.13.00010     Document Type: Article

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